Heat Rises

The bleak urban landscape added a lot of tension and mood to the story. I'm curious if the setting was inspired by a real place or purely fictional.

The story kept me on the edge of my seat, but I wondered if the rapid pace was planned to mirror the urgency of the investigation or just a stylistic choice.

The characters often had to choose between bad and worse — I wonder what influenced the author's approach to exploring moral ambiguity within the mystery.